{"product_id":"left-bank-9781250231468","title":"Left Bank","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnès Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century, from Richard Wright's \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e, Simone de Beauvoir''s \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, and James Baldwin''s \u003ci\u003eGiovanni''s Room\u003c\/i\u003e to Samuel Beckett''s \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot \u003c\/i\u003eand Saul Bellow''s \u003ci\u003eAugie March,\u003c\/i\u003e along with the origin stories of now legendary movements, from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd, New Journalism, bebop, and French feminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as yo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407272223063,"sku":"9781250231468","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/left-bank-9781250231468","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}